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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 670
Citations - 79194
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications receiving 75265 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.
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How Stressful Is the Transition to Adolescence for Girls
TL;DR: The stress experienced by the young adolescent is defined here in terms of the potentially stressful life events that characterize the transition from childhood to adolescence as discussed by the authors, and the cumulative load of events may be triggering conflictual interactions via low impulse control and depressive and aggressive symptomatology.
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Estimating the Effects of Head Start on Parenting and Child Maltreatment.
TL;DR: Compared to children who did not attend Head Start, children who Did Attend Head Start are less likely to have low access to learning materials and more likely to experience spanking by their parents at age five.
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Mother–Infant Interactions in Early Head Start: A Person-Oriented Within-Ethnic Group Approach
Christy Brady-Smith,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda,Jean M. Ispa,Allison Sidle Fuligni,Rachel Chazan-Cohen,Mark A. Fine +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a person-centered within-group approach was used to examine observed patterns of mothering among European American, African American, and Mexican American low-income mothers and their 1-year-olds who were participating in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project.
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Low-Birth-Weight Infants Born to Adolescent Mothers: Effects of Coresidency With Grandmother on Child Development
Sandra K. Pope,Leanne Whiteside,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Kelly J. Kelleher,Vaughn I. Rickert,Robert H. Bradley,Patrick H. Casey +6 more
TL;DR: Findings of this study support the need for programs that include the extended family of at-risk infants, providing education and literacy skills to the mothers and encouraging participation of all care givers of the child.
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Problems in studying and defining pubertal events.
TL;DR: Problems in studying and defining pubertal events during early adolescence are examined and possible models for studying Pubertal change are discussed, focusing on timing of events, mediated effects, biobehavioral interaction, and cumulative risk models.